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Super-rich employ Gurkhas to keep squatters at bay

News reaches us of a novel new way to help the Gurkhas feel at home in Blighty: according to Ian Bone: Anarchist in the UK, billionaires in London’s primest neighbourhoods are employing them to see off squatters.

Gurkha

Mr Bone writes on his blog:

Wealthy homeowners are so worried about their properties being taken over by squatters that they are employing live-in Gurkhas to guard them.

About 40 ex-servicemen, from one of the most formidable regiments in the British Army, are posted in neighbourhoods including Mayfair, Hampstead and Belgravia.

Operations manager Ed Mills said: ‘It’s almost like a plague of locusts sweeping across London taking over, property by property.’

I have no idea if there’s any truth in this, but I really hope there is …